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Whatever your company’s stage of development — early stage, rapid growth or market leader — we understand the challenges you face. After all, we’ve been helping entrepreneurs achieve their potential for decades.

Creating and sustaining a viable business model is a never-ending challenge. You have to gain — and maintain — the confidence of your investors and lenders. You have to keep driving forward through volatility in the local and global economy, your industry and the competitive line-up.

We can help you develop a financial growth strategy that helps you adapt to the changing dynamics in your market. We’ll help you determine the right corporate structure for your business, aligning your tax strategy with your business strategy to keep your tax burden down. We can also help you build an effective risk-management framework.

Funding is the lifeblood of your business. But navigating potential capital structures and sources can be confusing and often overwhelming.

Venture capital, private placements, debt and equity instruments, loans, cross-border transactions, securitizations of assets. Putting these and other financing strategies to work for you is critical to achieve your goals. The key is to understand your financing options, thoroughly evaluate your alternatives and structure the best terms.

We can help you plan and structure your initial public offering and other equity and financial instruments. At the same time, we work with you to reduce taxes on capital transactions and mitigate financial market exposures. If you’re in a cash crunch, we can help you find ways to create liquidity. And we can help you communicate effectively with your investors.

No matter what your financing needs, we can help you determine and implement the right structures to promote growth and flexibility.

Strategic transactions are an important part of your evolution and survival. Alliances, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions can accelerate your growth, while sales and spinoffs let you cash in on the asset value you’ve built. If your business is well along in its development, the most important transaction on your horizon is your initial public offering.

When you enter a transaction, you have to get a lot of things right — and there’s a lot that can go wrong. It becomes even more complex when you’re conducting a deal across borders.

Our seasoned professionals can help you plan, execute and integrate your transactions effectively. We’ll help you evaluate alternatives and structure transactions of every kind — to manage the risks, achieve positive terms, and reduce your taxes.

You have to create an effective operating infrastructure and team right from the start. And then at every stage of your development, you need to maximize efficiency and productivity. Attract, retain and motivate the right talent. Manage your IT investment and ensure systems security, integrity and continuity. Protect your intellectual property. Minimize operational tax costs. Maximize the efficiency of your enterprise-wide processes.

We bring you proven services that are geared to the issues you face at every turn. Whether it's designing tax-effective reward, incentive and benefit plans, implementing systems security and controls, optimizing your internal audit function and tax department operations or creating a tax-effective supply chain, we can keep your operational capabilities in step with your vision for the future.

Surging optimism among Canadian entrepreneurs

According to a recent poll by Forum Research for Ernst & Young and Financial Post, 55% of entrepreneurs are more optimistic about prospects for their company compared with only 36.5% a year earlier. To grow their businesses, 62% will remain focused on organic growth. Read the full story here. And check out our infographic.

EY refers to the global organization, and may refer to one or more, of the member firms of Ernst & Young Global Limited, each of which is a separate legal entity. Ernst & Young Global Limited, a UK company limited by guarantee, does not provide services to clients.